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Jane Addams Collection
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-001
Overview
A world-famous social reformer; co-founded the first settlement house in America in 1889; championed many causes on behalf of the urban poor, such as protection of immigrants, child labor laws, industrial safety, juvenile courts, and recognition of labor unions; a leading figure in the movement for international peace; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
Dates:
1838-; Majority of material found within 1880-1935
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Emily Greene Balch Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-006
Abstract
Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) was the second U.S. woman to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Balch embarked on her academic career in the economics and sociology department at Wellesley College. Balch's extracurricular work with the Women's Trade Union League and opposition to World War I resulted in dismissal from Wellesley, and thereafter she helped lead the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Called a "Citizen of the World," Balch worked for peace throughout her...
Dates:
1842-1961; Majority of material found within 1875 - 1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Helene Stöcker Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-035
Overview
Dr. Helene Stöcker (1869-1943) was one of the first woman students to enter a German University. In the 1920s she helped found Germany's first woman suffrage organization, and later the Bund für Mutterschutz (Protection of Motherhood). Dr. Stöcker immigrated to the United States in 1941 under the sponsorship of friends and colleagues in the peace movement.
Dates:
1897-1994; Majority of material found within 1913-1943
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Helena M. Swanwick Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Swanwick, Helena M.
Overview
Helena Maria Sickert was born in Germany and moved to England early on. She was an author, journalist, and lecturer involved in peace activism, feminism, and social justice. She became chair of the British Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was a British delegate to the League of Nations. Her dream was that women, if they used their power, could make an end to war.
Dates:
1907-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 2
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2
- Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 2
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- Jacobs, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette), 1854-1929 2
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- Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 1
- Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 1
- Allen, Clifford, 1889-1939 1
- Balch, F. V. (Francis Vergnies), 1839-1898 1
- Balch, Francis Noyes, 1873- 1
- Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929 1
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- Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
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- Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
- Fletcher, John P. 1
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- Glücklich, Vilma 1
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
- Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 1
- Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
- Horney, Karen, 1885-1952 1
- Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
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- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 1
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- Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932 1
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- King-Hall, Stephen, Sir, 1893-1966 1
- Kollontaĭ, A. (Aleksandra), 1872-1952 1
- Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 1
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 1
- Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956 1
- Lowrie, Kathleen Jennison 1
- MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 1
- Marshall, Catherine E. 1
- Murray, Gilbert, 1866-1957 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- Pendleton, Ellen F. (Ellen Fitz), 1864-1936 1
- People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace 1
- Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline, 1867- 1
- Ponsonby, Arthur Ponsonby, Baron, 1871-1946 1
- Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 1
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- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 1
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- Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1
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- Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966 1
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- Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 1
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- Springer, Brunold, 1873- 1
- Starr, Ellen Gates 1
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